Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Oltmans, De Mohrenschildt would vacillate between claiming his conspiracy tale was a hoax and asserting it was true. In addition to De Mohrenschildt's instability, doubts are thrown on his story by a review of Warren Commission testimony that shows De Mohrenschildt last saw Oswald six months before the assassination. "It is absolutely out of the question that De Mohrenschildt had anything to do with Kennedy's death," fumes Chicago Attorney Albert Jenner, who interviewed De Mohrenschildt for the Warren Commission. Adds Jenner of the House Assassination Committee's entire performance: "Utterly disgusting...
...land cases, of course, the Indian Renaissance is rattling one of the uglier skeletons in the open closet of American history. That much land occupied by the Indians was taken by force or fraud is an old, richly documented story. The tale, if sad, is not surprising, given the way of civilization wherever it has encroached on simpler societies. It may be, as many historians argue, that American settlers were driven by an unusual hunger for land. To pioneering Americans, in fact, the right to property was rarely distinguished from the right to liberty. It was the irresistible pursuit...
...country for the voluntary acceptance" of sterilization. A recent tour of the Indian countryside proved that this claim was wildly untrue. In the village of Pipli in Haryana state, where police enforced a mass sterilization, the menfolk seemed like the inhabitants of a town in a gothic tale who had been stricken by some mysterious pestilence. All nodded in agreement as Gyani Ram, 40, told how he had been forced to undergo a vasectomy, and then was denied a certificate after officials discovered too late that he was childless and should not have been sterilized in the first place...
...Screenplay, Best Actress (Faye Dunaway) and Best Actor (Peter Finch, who, as a knowledgeable friend of ours in Minneapolis put it, won on the death angle, since he suffered a fatal heart attack several months after the picture had been finished). But the evening finally went to a fairy-tale called Rocky, which, like three very dry martinis, makes you feel good. But Rocky takes much longer. Relevance had taken a prearranged dive...
...Kirkland recanted the tale of his moment in the limelight, one could tell that he missed it. It was not because he saw a pro career go down the drain...